θολερ-ός, ά, όν,
(θολός) muddy, foul, turbid, opposed to καθαρός or λαμπρός, properly of troubled water, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.53, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 8, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.102; θ. καὶ πηλώδης 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 113b: _metaphorically_, λαμπρὸν δὲ θολερῷ δῶμα συμμείξας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 222; θ. οὖρα 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.7; ἀήρ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 58d (_superlative_ -ώτατος); αἷμα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Somno et Vigilia” 458a14 (_superlative_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χυμοί [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.3.4 (_comparative_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; νεφέλαι [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 9.277 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus): χρώς 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 14.9; πλίνθος 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.62; δύσμορφον ἡ ὗς καὶ θολερόν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.670a. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 θ. πνεῦμα uncertain reading in [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 1.39 (see. θαλερός). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II metaphorically, troubled by passion or madness, θολεροὶ λόγοι troubled words of passion (compared to a torrent), [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 885 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; θολερῷ χειμῶνι νοσήσας with turbid storm of madness, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 206 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θολερῷ κυνόδοντι with passionate tooth, [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 130 codices (θαλερῷ conjecture Schneider). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+] adverb -ρῶς[[ uncertain in “Comica Adespota” 865. ] Refs]